http://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sweetcron therourke@gmail.com http://tumblr.machinemachine.net/post/8709269169 “The novelty of the coming politics is that it will no longer be a struggle for the conquest or control of the State, but a struggle between the State and the non-state (humanity), an insurmountable disjunction between whatever singularity and the State organization.”

- Giorgio Agamben, The Coming Community ]]> Tue, 09 Aug 2011 16:27:41 -0700 http://tumblr.machinemachine.net/post/8709269169 http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/1969/12/north-korea-8217-s-digital-underground/8414/ The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is the very archetype of a “closed society.” It ranks dead last—196th out of 196 countries—in Freedom House’s Freedom of the Press index. Unlike the citizens of, say, Tunisia or Egypt, to name two countries whose populations recently tapped the power of social media to help upend the existing political order, few North Koreans have access to Twitter, Facebook, or YouTube. In fact, except for a tiny elite, the DPRK’s 25 million inhabitants are not connected to the Internet. Televisions are set to receive only government stations. International radio signals are routinely jammed, and… ]]> Wed, 09 Mar 2011 07:11:43 -0700 http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/1969/12/north-korea-8217-s-digital-underground/8414/ http://www.e-flux.com/journal/view/91 In all the traditional approaches to pedagogy, both in art and in literacy, the possibility of perceiving the transitional nature of the space produced by text or image—the common space for author and receptor—is completely lost. The emphasis is on producing communication vessels that are static and consumable objects, for which the sign has to be well executed. In this kind of art, execution has to reach the point of desirability, which in turn defines success. Teaching and instruction are generally used as synonyms, something that reflects an implicit pedagogical ideology. The word instruction is a homonym: it refers to… ]]> Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:51:00 -0700 http://www.e-flux.com/journal/view/91